protein?

I kinda noticed this too..

I think you're misunderstanding your symptoms....it takes more effort for your digestive tract to process meat proteins.

I have no problems with it....but chicken on occasion gives me gas, but that could be in combo with something else.

Proteins are important, and from my perspective...especially meat protein.

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t-bone!!! I'll meet you at the bbq!! lol.

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I don't like getting too much protein because I do eat meat every day just about. That's the one thing I dislike about Ensure, which I drink alot. It only has 18% of your daily value of calories but 26% of your daily protein needs.

I guess a lot of people drinking Ensure aren't eating meat.

Amazingly enough though...my little mighty mother has survived on sips of Ensure for many years now and she is still going strong. Not a good replacement for food, but if that's all ya' got, it works well. She has a swallowing problem -- I can assure you that this problem is not something I inherited...I swallow everything in sight. **sigh**

I am one of those people who must have some meat in every meal. At least an egg for a weekday breakfast. Alway a pack of jerky in the office. Never seen any effect on my digestion. I think animal protein is essential for keeping your energy up. I don't agree that your body has to work harder to digest meat. As far as digestion goes, fiber is as hard as it gets (it doesn't digest). I remember reading that you need fat to break down protein though. High protein - low fat is not that good. This works great for me as I can eat bacon and well marbled steak....
Now I am making myself hungry.

Lonie: it's not just you, grass fed beef and bison have more omega 3's and less saturated fat than corn fed.

SMfromCA: Fiber doesn't digest but is required to keep things moving. INSOLUBLE fiber is pretty rough, yes, especially when flaring. But SOLUBLE fiber helps slow things down and adds a paste-like padding. You know that glue stuff you get in oatmeal when you cook rolled oats? That's soluble fiber, where the insoluble fiber is the husk/bran.

Also, protein and fat are digested independently, so they have no affect on each other. Lean proteins are perfectly ok (and delicious). And it's more red meats that are hard to digest, due to the saturated fat. On the other hand, fish is one of the easiest foods to digest assuming it's deboned correctly. Chicken is pretty easy too, but in my experience most people cook it to the point where it's not palatable.

I think we are confusing the two things here. One is actual digestion of what we eat, which doesn't happen with the fiber. Thus the body doesn't get any nutrition. The second is what fiber does to help the digestive tract. As Malkavian stated correctly, insoluble fiber makes the food move faster, which is good provided your gut can handle it. Soluble fiber doesn't digest either, but helps by padding the gut lining. It also works as a pre-biotic - food for the colon bacteria. There was never any question about the usefulness of fiber. Of course one should eat plenty for fiber with the meat. All I was saying was that the stomach, and small intestine, where the actual digestion happens would work harder on trying to digest fiber than meat. Meat may take longer, but it still digests completely (and provide nutrients such as vitamins D, and B12 that are essential). I think fiber makes our guts work just as much in 6 hours while passing by as the meat would in 1 to 3 days. That is just my thinking (I would buy into any logic that supports eating meat...) .